See Taylor Swift’s reaction when she swallowed a bug in the middle of her show in Milan

Taylor Swift was caught off guard during a performance in Milan this weekend when she swallowed a bug mid-song – see her reaction below.

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During the surprise song segment of her “Eras” tour show on Saturday (July 13) at Stadio Giuseppe Meazza in Milan, Italy, Swift accidentally swallowed a major mashup mid-stream, causing a small pause in the show as the singer quickly got the situation under control.

Girl swallowed a beetle #MilanTSTheErasTour pic.twitter.com/INsjCTGMeX

— Bobby | Milan Eras 🫶 (@swiftieboston) July 13, 2024

“Swallowed another one… I knew this would happen because there are so many bugs here tonight,” she told the crowd between coughing fits to dislodge the insect from her throat. “I just need to cough a little bit.”

The matter was quickly resolved and the audience was left laughing at the incident. However, the next day (Sunday) would prove more difficult for the singer as she faced an even more disturbing problem: her piano was not working properly.

While playing “Getaway Car” with “Out Of The Woods” on the piano in Milan on Sunday, she quickly realized her piano didn’t sound right. “You know what, we finally broke it. We finally broke this thing,” Swift joked as she and a crew member tinkered with the instrument.

‼️| Taylor Swift fixes the piano and performs “Getaway Car” in Milan tonight! #MilanTStheErasTour pic.twitter.com/7JQFcVPYk2

— The Eras Tour (@TSTheErasTour) July 14, 2024

“The Tortured Poets Department” received a three-star rating from NME upon release, with Laura Molloy writing, “The pitfalls that plague her 11th studio album are all the more disappointing – she’s proven time and time again that she can do better. Speaking to a Melbourne audience during her Eras Tour, Swift said ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ was born out of a ‘need’ to write. It’s just that maybe we didn’t need to hear it.”

Swift is currently on the European leg of her career-spanning “Eras” tour, which is scheduled to end this December.

Last month, NME gave Swift’s first Edinburgh performance of the tour a glowing five-star review, writing: “Despite being an arena show in a huge, cavernous venue, Swift and her fans managed to build a community. Strangers exchange friendship bracelets, laugh and cry together, and embrace the tour’s inside jokes and stories (for example, screaming “One, two, three, let’s go, bitch” during ‘Delicate’).

“It is the power of Swift, an artist who not only inspired the renaming of a Scottish lake, but also made countless fans open up and accept being part of the Eras family. With The Epoch Tourthen Swift has succeeded in creating a marvel of a show that comes with a beating heart.”